Digital BW, The Print

David,

Yes and no. With a well profiled inkset you can get b/w prints with no color cast and little of no crossover in the shadow areas.

For example, I recently had Profile City make me a profile for the Epson 10k inks and H. Torchon. Yesterday I printed 30 16x20 images for a photographer friend. The prints were made on my Epson 10000 using the hextone color inks. They were perfectly neutral, no dots, no color cast. As I mentioned, the key is a very clean profile.

Regards,

Michael J. Kravit
Architect/Photographer
Boca Raton, Florida
www.kravit.net
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David J. Bookbinder 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:19 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Purple cast on B&W prints


  I have the same problem printing black and white prints using the built-in
  profiles. When I use the Epson Colorlife profile, the images come out
  more-or-less black and white. My understanding is that to get true black and
  white, you really need to use a black and white inkset (that replaces the
  colored inks with shades of gray), such as any of those mentioned often on
  this list, rather than the Epson colored inks.




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